Passport Renewal

[bobbie22]

Can you still get passports done in the post office? Or do you have to do it on line, or do you ring the Passport Office?
Thanks for any information

[Buenchico]

If your local Post Office offers the 'Check & Send' service, you can pick up a form from there.

Use the link here to find a Post Office that offers the service:
https://www.postoffice.co.uk/branch-finder
(Enter your postcode and click on 'Branch services').

You can also get a form sent to you by phoning 0300 222 0000. (Lines are open 0800 to 2000 on weekdays and between 0900 and 1730 at weekends. Calls are charged at the same rate as those to 01 or 02 numbers, from both landlines and mobile. So, if you've got spare 'included minutes', your call will be free)

However you can save yourself £9.50 by doing it online:
https://www.gov.uk/renew-adult-passport/renew

[bobbie22]

Thanks so much for your reply. Will get on to that. I think I got my last passport form and paid in the post office. I don’t know if I am going anywhere yet, but just in case !!!

[Buenchico]

Thanks for your post.

If you're using the online service, you can get your photo taken at one of the booths that are located (among other places) in many larger supermarkets. (I used one in Morrisons).

As long as it says that it provides digital passport photos (as they all seem to nowadays anyway), your photos will have a code printed with them. See the illustration here:
https://www.photo-me.co.uk/activity/digital-passport-photo/

When you use the online service, you won't then have to bother about uploading (or posting) a photo. You simply enter that code into the relevant field on the form and your photo is found electronically from the records of the company that owns the photo booth.

Modern photo booths also have technology that automatically checks that your photo will meet the requirements of the Passport Agency too. It makes everything a lot simpler than it used to be!

[emmie]

i had to get mine renewed and needed the photo's, i tried the booth ones, but was told they weren't good enough, so resorted to snappy snaps, which were acceptable. I wanted my passport as a means of ID, but you never know i might need it to go someplace one of these days.
a word of warning, my brother needed to get his son a passport and waited over 10 weeks to get it, he finally resorted coming to London from West Susssex to pick it up, cost for the train 158.58 for a day return. A very expensive outing.

[New Judge]

Where on Earth was he travelling from in W Sussex that cost £158, Emmie?

[naomi24]

It's very easy to do it on line.

[gulliver1]

11.34 Naomi... He did it on line ,,,,an expensive Train line..

[Buenchico]

>>> Where on Earth was he travelling from in W Sussex that cost £158

That had me baffled too, NJ! The maximum (peak-time) Standard Class return fare between either Chichester or Bognor Regis and London, including a Travelcard, is £72.10.

I also can't see how any National Rail journey could cost £158.58, as National Rail tickets are always priced in multiples of 5p!